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VOL. XXIII, NO. 32.
DARLINGTON, S. U., THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1896. |
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matters in and around the
town OF DARLINGTON.
A Column of News, Tersefy Told, of
Interest to Our Many
Readers.
Mr. M. J. Outlaw is havintf a
new roof put on his stable.
Whiskey constable Newman
has been transfered to Sumter.
The Rev. R. W. Llde return
ed from Port Royal last Satur
day.
Miss Louise Dallas, of Char
leston, is visiting Mrs. W. C.
Byrd.
Rev. E. C. Bailey, of Tim-
monsville, spent last Monday
in town.
Misrcs Kate and Virgina Wil
liamson left for Hendersonville
last Monday.
Miss Eloise Duffie, of Colum
bia. is visiting her sister Mrs.
D. M. Fulton.
Mr. Malcolm C. Woods is
clerking for Woods & Milling
for a short time.
The premium list for tne next
State Fair has been received at
The News office.
After a month’s vacation, Mr.
Howard Norment has gone
back to Sligh & Rucker.
Miss. Nell Harden, of Che-
raw, has been spending a few
days with Mrs. J. L. Michie.
The Republicans will hold a
McKinley and Hobart ratifi
cation meeting next Saturday.
The A. C. Line has reduced
its summer rates to Greenville,
Spartanburg and Glenn Springs.
Mrs. L. R. Brazell, of Flor
ence, is spending a week with
friends and relatives in Darling
ton.
The Rev. T. Hartwell Ed
wards will conduct services at
the Baptist Church next Sun
day.
Some of those new State con
stitutions still on hand at The
Darungton News office at five
cents a copy.
Mr. J. P. Hodges, of Marlboro,
spent last Sunday in Darlinglon
with his brother Mr. Hodges of
the Enterprise Hotel.
W ANTED—A first class dry goods
salesman with good reeom
niendations. Apply at Thk Daro-
1 NOTON > KWS office.
The county executive com
mittee met in town last Monday
and settled satisfactorily one or
two matters in dispute.
Welling & Bonnoitt are build
ing a two story warehouse,
(sides to be covered with iron,)
in the rear of their store.
The Union meeting was held
at the Methodist church last
Sunday night. Rev. D. M. Ful
ton preaching the sermon.
Mr. James D. Gillespie, who
has been making tobacco flues
in Lake City for several months,
lias returned to Darlington.
Messrs. C. S. McCullough and
C. W. Milling went to Pawley’s
Island last Saturday to enjoy
surf bathing for a few days.
Mr. Howard Norment, who
has been spending about ten
days-at Pawley’s Island, re
turned home last Monday uignt.
< )ur merchants are getting in
lots of goods daily and will be
ready for the trade as soon as
cotton and tobacco begin to
come in.
Mr. B. A. Early, of Early’s
Cross Roads, advertises fine
Jersey cows and calvts for sale.
See his advertisement in anoth
er column.
Miss Claudia Durant, of Mar
ion, who has been spending
some time with the family of
Mr. E. P. Lide, returned home
last Tuesday.
The Misses Livingston and
Miss Lipscomb, wlio have been
visiting Mrs. Frank Pegues the
past week, returned to their
homes last Saturday.
Messrs. W. F. Dargan and E.
O. Woods went to Charleston
last week to appear before
Judge Simonton again in the
railroad bond matter.
Mr. Henry M, Smith return
ed home last Saturday night,
after having enjoyed the surf
bathing and sea breezes at Paw
ley’s Island for about a week.
Baird Bros, advertise pianos
and organs &c. Mr. Augus
Gainey, a musician,is now with
them and he can play on your
instrument for you as well as
repair it.
Miss Helen Mclver, of Char
leston, is visiting her aunt Mrs.
Dr. Griffin.
Prof. Patterson Wardlaw,
formerly superintendent of the
Darlington graded school, was
in town last Friday.
Mr. Jno. A. Hutchinson is the
first to bring sweet potatoes to
town for sale. They were
bought by Dean Bros.
Mrs. R. H. Hodges and two
children, Miss Georgia and Mas
ter John, of Bennettsville are
visiting at the Enterprise Ho
tel.
Mrs. T. E Sligh and Miss
Shuford have returned from a
visit to Summerton. Miss Shu
ford has also taken her place
again as cashier at Sligh &
Rucker’s.
Solicitor Johnson went up
the Hartsville road last Monday
night to attend the Ashland
campaign meeting. He and Mr.
Sellers keep on each others
trail all the time.
Go and get your registration
certificate this week. The books
are open ^rom nine a. m. until
three p. m. Don’t neglect it
now and complain later that
you are not registered.
At the hearing before Magis
trate Warr, the evidence
against Carolina Rosser fur kill
ing his wife and child was found
to be insufficient and he was
accordingly discharged.
The Coast Line advertises an
excursion to be run to Ashe
ville from Darlington, Bennetts
ville, Cheraw and other points
; n this section, on August 14—
tickets good to return until Au
gust 31.
If you want to vote at the
primary election on the 25th of
August, be sure that your name
is enrolled on your club list five
days previous to the day of
election. Don’t put it off too
long, but attend to it at once.
Remember that the ladies of
the Presbyterian church will
serve dinner for 25 cents at the
cotton shed on the day for the
great tobacco break. They will
have all kinds of good things to
eat and cool things to drink for
the hungry and thirsty.
The Opera House corner is
lively now every morning and
afternoon witn strains of music
from the rehearsals that are in
progress for the presentation of
“Pauline” on the 20th of Au
gust. Mr. Tillinghast seems to
believe in plenty of work and
the indications are that the
Opera will be unusually good
for amateurs.
The regular business meeting
of the Epworth League could
not be held last Sunday after
noon, but will take place the
first Sunday in September when
officers will be elected. The re
ligious meeting, however, was
held Sunday evening when the
Rev. R. A. Child gave a very
interesting talk on the subject
of the lesson.
The Farmers Warehouse at
Hartsville will open for the sale
of tobacco August 18th, a week
after vhe day appointed for the
Darlington warehouses. Hav
ing the opening days fixed so
far apart the one will not con
flict with the other. Remem
ber the day, the 18th of August,
for the Hartsville warehouse
and if you forget it refer to the
advertisement in the News.
Eleven applicants stood the
examination on Thursday last
for the scholarships in Win-
throp College. The law allows
to each county as many of these
scholarships as it has members
in the lower house of the Gen
eral Assembly. Miss Annie A.
Perry, of Hartsvilie, Miss A.
L. Witherspoon, of Dovesvllle,
and Mise Ervin Watford, of
Oats, led in the examination for
the Darlington scholarships
A Thief Caught.
Buck Pugh, a colored boy who
had just tiuished a term of six
years in the penitentiary, broke
iuto J. O. Muldrow’s drug store
last Thursday night and stole
about $10. One of the dollar
bills which he stole had been
mended by Mr. Muldrow, and
the latter being familiar with
the appearance of the bill, it
was traced by Chief Dargan to
Sligh & Rucker’s store where it
had been spent. Mr. Sligh got
the clerk, who took the money
in, to spot the person who paid
it to him, and in this way, the
thief was captured.
Harvest your pea vines with
McCormick mowers and hay
rakes. Welling & Bonnoitt
Agents.
The
Lamar and Hartsville Campaign
Meetings.
[Reported for Thk Nkwb.|
The first county campaign
meeting was held at Lamar on
the 29th ultimo. The meeting
was held in a schoolhouse and
was opened with prayer, by
Senator John 8. Dubose, who
prayed that the meeting might
passed off harmoniously with
out bickering and with wisdom.
There were about 175 people in
the building and on the grounds.
The day was intensely not and
the audience was quit® passive
under its influence and showed
little enthusiasm. The candi
dates for sheriff were first call
ed upon to speak. Messrs.
Munn, Scarborough, and Lee
Bass simply made announce
ments of their candidacy. Mr.
Rosier Kelly was not present.
Ex-Sheriff Cole gave a history
ot what he considered fine de
tective work while he was sher
iff. When the auditors
had a turn, Mr. Lawrence said
he had.no speech to make, but
rested on his past record. Mr.
Mozingosaid he was competent
to fill the office, and so did Mr
Walter Vaughan. Of candi
dates for Supervisor Mr. Fields
made quite a humorous speech
that .took well with the audi
ence. Mr. King, present County
Supervisor, gave a statement as
to how the roads had been
worked under his management,
as well as the present condition
of the county finances. Several
verbal criticisms were made to
him of his management of the
public roads. The other candi
dates merely stated that they
were runhing. Mr. J. N. Par
rott and J. O. A. Moore were the
only candidates for Clerk of
Court, who made talks. Mr.
Parrott’s was a characteristic
one. Mr. Moore took high
grounds and made a very ear
nest plea for Reform principles,
for electing only Reformers to
office. Mr Fuller Howie made
a statement that he was run
ning for Treasurer. Capt.
Woodham, present incumbent
to hold off that calf, probably
alluding to his competitor, Mr.
Howie, and let him suck the
public tit two years longer.
Of the candidates for the legis-
We have an unusually large
stock Of LADIES* OXFORD TIES
in all the latest styles that we
are selling very cheap to close
out. Also a large line of Misses’
and children’s oxfords at just a
little above cost.
DARLINGTON SHOE STORE,
WOODS k MILLING, Proprietors.
lature only three speeches were
made. Mr. G. W. Brown said
he was not out there to make a
speech, had none prepared, that
he belonged to a profession that
required speacing almost all
the time, he was not running fh
favor of any faction and would
not represent any if be got in
the Legislature, the more he
studied free silver the more con-i
vinced he was it was right.
Mr. J. B. Floyd started out on
most too elevated a scale, he
spoke of the magic wand of re
form sweeping from the moun
tains to the seaboard, but he
got keyed up most too high and
when he let himself down he be
came rather common plaje.
Dr. W. J. Garner read an
electric and scholarly speech
from manuscript, that took well
with the audience, it touched
upon the live financial questions
of the day. Anyone who has
heard Mr. Henry Burn speak
in the Constitutional Conven
tion can tell wha; kind of speech
he made when he announced
himself a candidate for Super
intendent of Education. He
said in answer to a question
that he and himself and alli
ance did more than any other
institutions to create a senti
ment favorable to Jree kilver in
this State. Mr. Alonso Parrott
said he saw in a dream or vis
ion a voice calling and a hand
beckoning to him to come out
for Superintendent of Educa
tion. Mr. J. M. Johnson made
a speech in behalf of his own
candidacy. His subject was on
improvement. He spoke of an
improvement in every branch
of business, Jury system, Trial
Justice system, improvement in
farms, education. He did not
take any sides. The Solicitor’s
office is a delicate one, rotation
in office therefore did not apply
to it, it any body was put in So
licitor’s office over him he ought
to be an improvement on him; if
he was swapped off for any one
else boot should be given. Mr.
Sellers of Dillon, Marion coun
ty, Mr. Johneon’s opponent,
made a speech in reply in which
he said everybody beleived in
rotation in office, except fellows
who were in offlee. He thought
he was competent to fill the
office and would institute cer
tain reforms if he got in. He
made several witty remarks.
His speech was well received.
It was hard at Lamar to tell
toward whom among the can
didates the sentiment was most
favorably. There was some
applause, but it was hard to tell
whether it was at humorous re
marks or real preference for the
candidates. Such was the
state of feeling at the
Hartsville meeting held last Sat
urday, but in other respects the
Hartsville meeting was alto
gether different from the one at
Lamar. The meeting were hold
in a gigantic unfinished tobacco
warehouse. There was present
about 200 people. The audience
was a restless one and they
seemed in no humor fer being
quiet or for the speaking. Vol
leys of questions were fired at
almost eve.*y candidate and
some of them got badly rattled
undef them. There was at
times such a hubbub and buzz
ing you could neither hear the
questions nor the answers and
in consequence all the speeches
fell fiat as dish water, though
they were up to the same stan
dard as at Lamar.
Mr. J. B. Floyd made a better
speech than he did at Lamar.
Mr. H. C. Burns a much better.
Mr. Burns collapsed in his
speech in this line, whether it
was the terrible day or the rest
lessness of the audience, makes
no difference. This meeting in
other respects was similar and
on the same order as that at
Lamar, and any other details
would be uninteresting, unless
everything said and done were
given. '
A Treat For Music Lovers.
Editor, Darlington News:
Please inform the members of
the Darlington Guards and the
public generally through, the
columns of your paper that a
comic opera entitled “Pifiline”
is to be given for the benefit of
the company at the opera house
some time during the present
month. this opera is by Danks,
one of the most renouned of all
the great composers, and con
tains some beautiful music.
The services of all the best
musical talent in town have
been enlisted in the cause, and
the oast and chorus composed
of some thirty voices in all, are
being carefully trained in their
work by Mr. J. W. Tillinghast,
a most accomplished musician,
who prepared the Sumter
amateurs for their “Pinifore”
E erformance, and who has been
ere long enough to prove to
our people that he is a thorough
master of his profession. Un
der the circumstances, there
fore, we feel justified in mak
ing the prediction that the ren
dition of the opera will prove a
success in every particular—a
success to which every member
and friend of the company is
asked to contribute to the best
of his ability.
Henry T. Thompson.
A Pioneer Leaf Dealer.
The first leaf factory built in
South Carolina by a leaf dealer
was that erected last year by
Mr. John Coleman, of Darling
ton. Mr. Coleman has been
buying of the Darlington mar
ket ever since its beginning,
and ho has met with the success
that always comes to one who
is well-grounded in his business,
who is full of get up-and-get
and who is throughly reliable.
No. one is better posted on
South Carolina tobacco than he,
and no one is in position to fill
orders|more satisfactorily. There
is no better tobacco market in
the State than Darlington, as is
generally known. The choicest
of South Carolina stock is to be
obtained there, and Mr. Cole
man is the man to get it for his
customers. Open np correspon
dence with him.—SoufAem To
bacco Journal
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Every Family Must Have ^nettling From Our Store,
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Samples to select from.
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mt
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That little boy must have a Nice Pocket Knife, the little girt
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Old Stock and High prices are
want pleased customers;
“Tetley’s Tea” is the best on
the market—Deans Bros.
Repairs for McCormick mow-!]
ers kept in stock by Welling &.)
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